Guild Wars 2

Sorry for the troll-style posting, but I just thought I’d give my Ele another try and instantly shelved him again.

Fun facts of this attempt (in WvW):
-Full tough/heal gear and 0/10/0/30/30 bunker spec (with all heal traits etc). D/D as usual for this.
-I get auto-attacked (!) for 1/4 of my hit points (3700 damage) despite of the max toughness
-Using water 5 heal for <1/5 of my HP (I didn’t measure this in WvW anymore, but afterwards in PvE in some other zone, but whatever). What is this? Stealth-nerfed into oblivion during the past 9 months or something? And no, I was not under -33% heal condition.
-Signet of restoration, seems to have almost no effect at all anymore either, maybe a specific WvW-nerf?
-The attunement-switching and running/rolling around for basically hardly any result at all makes you look like an idiot. It’s like you pull off a joke performance of how you can press 41258 buttons in 10 seconds to swing weapons like a crazy ninja and then someone pulls out a gun and comically just shoots you instantly.

That was so pointless, I might as well just delete the character.

(PS: The dodge-rolling traits don’t work at all under water^^)

Hm, approximately this: Everyone who supported (Linsey Murdock) and allowed (Colin Johanson) ascended items should be kittened and then fed to the crows.

Yes definitely. Killed a dolyak and did 100% of the damage on it, and didn’t rally.
Usual Arenanet coding quality.

yes/no? Hello? hellooooo?

When a new build is released, often the GW2.exe file isn’t patched properly. The result of this will be:
The download will suddenly stall and stop at 0kB/s for no apparent reason and give an error message box.

The fix is to just delete the Gw2.exe file, rename Gw2.tmp to Gw2.exe, and then it will update fine.
I made a little script file for this task that I just run when it happens, consisting of only 2 lines:

rm “/home/antiriad/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GW2/Gw2.exe”
mv “/home/antiriad/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GW2/Gw2.tmp” “/home/antiriad/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GW2/Gw2.exe”

(In theory the first line is redundant and can be omitted, but I’m doing this cleanly :-p)

Oh there is one silly glitch on Linux you should know:

When a new build is released, often the GW2.exe file isn’t patched properly. The result of this will be:
The download will suddenly stall and stop at 0kB/s for no apparent reason and give an error message box.

The fix is to just delete the Gw2.exe file, rename Gw2.tmp to Gw2.exe, and then it will update fine.
I made a little script file for this task that I just run when it happens, consisting of only 2 lines:

rm “/home/antiriad/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GW2/Gw2.exe”
mv “/home/antiriad/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GW2/Gw2.tmp” “/home/antiriad/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/GW2/Gw2.exe”

(In theory the first line is redundant and can be omitted, but I’m doing this cleanly :-p)

Well I’m playing on a quadcore notebook with switchable nvidia optimus graphics, so my framerate isn’t super great. I have most settings on medium and some turned off/low (shadows!), and am at 20fps in LA and 30fps in WvW. The resolution is 1920×1080 though, making the game look pretty good imo. I haven’t experimented with lower resolutions since this is the native resolution of my notebook screen.
I find the game very playable but I can imagine that some people insist on 60fps or something. I haven’t tested fps in sPvP.

Wine doesn’t necessarily reduce fps by much, although it can, depending on the game. I don’t have a comparison for GW2 because I don’t run Windows, but I know that some games reach even the same fps they have on Windows.
I’m not sure how “heavy” Ubuntu is though. It seems to have been stuffed with a lot of things over time (that’s why I recommend Linux Mint). I run a light Arch system with Xfce4 desktop.

According to http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=26558
GW2 has Gold status on both Arch and Ubuntu 13.04, meaning it should run very well!
Kinda weird that it only has Bronze on Mint 14, wonder what’s up with that.

I think I’m also the only person in Deso-TS where it says “Linux” in his client information field. :-p

Run GW2 on Linux via Wine. Works fine, and you have an OS that doesn’t mysteriously slowdown/crash/is susceptible to viri over time/doesn’t need defragmentation. (There is also Teamspeak 3 for Linux, or run the Windows version via Wine same as GW2.)
Recommended Linux version for newbies: Linux Mint. (Close relative to Ubuntu Linux.)
Edit: Actually, according to WineHQ, GW2 has Gold status on Ubuntu, so specifically for GW2 I guess you may consider Ubuntu instead of Mint >_> although I’m not sure if this discrepancy is for real..

Well, I just returned a short while ago after being offline for 9 months after Ascended trinkets were introduced, but this is sort of helpful, since as a WvW-focussed player I can now finally come to closure with this game.
Time to http://camelotunchained.com/en/category/foundationalprinciple/?orderby=date&order=asc

Interesting, we usually have trains instead, quite the opposite of breaking loose. Well a few people branched out, but the commands were repeated in map chat and I assume on server-TS too (I wasn’t on it, but a lot of people are, usually) and I think most players understand that they profit the easiest way this way.

Someone already speculated that enemy zergs will just be hailing each other now to flip objectives in WvW..

Guess what just happened in EB?
Our commander ordered, not to attack the enemy zerg and vice versa.

Both our Zergs passed right by each other while each one is attacking the other Fraction’s structure, ignoring it instead of defending it, just so they can flip faster without “distractions”. :-p
And by “right by” I mean it as it sounds, we nearly TOUCHED the zerg, 10 meters distance. Orders were clear: Do not attack them/defend the keep – flip moar stuff instead! And people approved of it since it was “more efficient”.

gg Arenanet, thanks for bringing us this awesome WvW game with awesome Ascended items.

Their support stated before that they never restore any items. Happened to me when I accidentally salvaged a skin item once. Would have been super easy for their kittenty support to restore it, but they don’t.
What you pay monthly is what you get from Arenanet: Zero.

Dark Matter is obviously invisible, so you cannot see it when it appears.

Well, so how about it?

The materials drops have been implemented extremely poorly, and no testing has gone into this apparently. The design regarding incentives and consequences is also very poorly done as if someone only thought it up for a minute without taking care. (WvW chest panic, really, is this some sort of joke? How do you keep your job designing something like this?? o_O) The developers give an impression like mediocre amateurs without any inspiration/motivation at all at this point.

I’d really like to know the percentage of players who beat the tiers/bosses in the Queen’s Gauntlet. I’m always interested in statistics such as these!
(Optionally with classes used even :-p)

Or at least could you provide a percentage of total winners who beat Liadri, maybe.

JonathanSharp.7094:

I think […] Ele are probably ok for the most part,

AFTER ALL THESE NERFS TO MOBILITY, healing and the RIDICULOUS damage output except if you go out with 0 toughness and lowest hp in the game and still only get half as much done as warriors at twice the effort and wrist surgery or w/e and the “mobility traits” that only work on combat but don’t tell you so (nerfnerf) AND the lack for a year now of an out-of-combat switch so we have to open our inventory all the time while running around to switch staff for swiftness, then getting in combat while trying to do so/having to locate the frigging offhand weapon in our inventory, you frigging DARE say “I think eles are ok for the most part”????
WTTTTTFFFFFFF MAAAAAAAAN.

I know… this is just a tv show.. a comedy show, and we’re the candidates and just didn’t know it..ahahaha…hahahahahaha…hAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA snap

Edit 10 minutes later:
Sorry, hard to calm down. wtfffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF… he writes “I think eles are ok for the most part” WWWWTTTFFF is this guy wtF!???!!!!? I have played all the builds, I have ~6 full sets for ele (itemwise).. oh yeah and gg ascended items, how will I get all of those in your kittened superfluous pink versions nao? You give them to me, man?
Time to read it again…. nope, it’s still there. Exactly the words… it wasn’t a dream. oO

Zindrix.1750:

I’m downloading another game right now.

Which one? I need a new game too, 2 friends of mine just quit, and I don’t feel like putting up with Arenanet’s kitten.

I have 5 1/2 exotic item sets for 1 character, because I like to vary things. Ascended items just no.

Crits do show up in the combat log, they just don’t look different than normal hits except for the higher damage number.

TheProcreator.9583:

Got it, well that is not too bad of a change.

this is nice..

tbh that would just be stupid… shouldnt it gain a low amount of each stat to keep its overall power the same… i mean this is like saying celestial is somehow op and needs nerfed
i dont know how MF transfers into stats but even +1 to everything would at least be something

..but this is correct, actually >.>
Indeed why nerf celestial gear in this patch? Other gear doesn’t get nerfed either, and I think celestial was actually underpowered so far even.

Very good idea. Playing GW2 requires way too much googling, that’s silly.

On an unrelated side note, I’m still not sure why the game is actually called “Guild Wars”. Where are the wars between guilds here?!?

I just picked up the game again and now I’m just hoping that LS ends ASAP, after which I will need to take a month long break to recover from it xD

Well admitted Liadri’s fight looks somewhat binary.
But of course, you need to tap left/right a bit to dodge her bolts to reduce damage taken a bit, then you need to heal up earlier or later, maybe you need to dodge roll to heal or dodge roll because you cannot heal at some point, who knows. And if you happen to be in a situation where you need to heal that will cost you some time during which you could’ve done something else, and maybe you find yourself in a bind or even panick a bit.
I’m convinced that stats do matter, even if only in a very subtle way sometimes.

Ok, it was the graphics options!

When “Shaders” is set to “Low” then you will see an illumination effect everywhere EXCEPT in the jumping puzzle in LA (haven’t tested other puzzles yet).

I changed it to “medium” and now I also see the illumination in the LA puzzle (the pirate captain one).

I’d like to know the percentages of players beating the various tiers in this arena challenge!

Especially I’d like to know the distribution of exotic vs ascended itemization over tier-winning percentages (per class, preferably :-p).

And then I’d wonder about the increase in percentage each, had they been in all ascended gear.
For example a player in Exotics who lost when the boss was at 10% HP might expect to have won had he been decked out in Ascended items.
Just one effect of the ugly gear treadmill, that at the same time make it no longer possible for classes that use various gear sets (elementalist) to be played in a varying/experimenting manner accordingly (outside of sPvP).

Now think if there is a group event like this in the future.
“Lf2m, Ascended only, no noobs who like to have many sets of items and hence have only exotics or people who have a life and don’t grind like kittens.”

Edit:
I am particularly concerned that future content will be tuned to Ascended items, making life hard for Exotics users. Is there any official statement on this matter perhaps?

yep. green -> yellow, perfect on the eyes.
in general “red” = hostile, “green” = friendly, so CMY please!

and on a silly side note:

Queued Art of War 3 (5k) > 1 day ago, it was about half way through, and now suddenly the queue is empty and AoW3 is displayed as researchable option again.

The log still shows that it should be queued. The influence points that were deducted remain gone.

Please fix, thanks.

Edit: It’s fixed!

Does anyone actually know which professions the Arenanet people play mostly?

So what are the possible steps we can take to make Arenanet fix ascended gear?
I would donate money for that cause, too. (The money I would have paid Arenanet in their gem store, IF they hadn’t introduced Ascended gear – after that, in last year, I decided to never again give them any money.)

Thanks. Well in my opinion it shouldn’t exceeed 3%..5%, more is too much of an advantage.

Oh right. But what is the difference if you consider not only have weapons, but a full set of items of Ascended vs Exotic.

emikochan.8504:

I doubt everyone will have ascended weapons so easily, and they aren’t going to dwarf exotics in effectiveness.

They are. A LOT so. As someone calculated in a posting in Game Discussion, the 5% increase on each stat/damage of Ascended weapons will ultimately result in a 15% difference in total power (not the stat) between two characters (Asc vs Exo).

(Had to repost because my old posting was removed here, because I speculated about the state of mind of the person responsible for ascended gear, which a moderator didn’t approve of.)

What in the world could make someone add gear that is 11%+ better than exotics, giving you a permanent feel of “this sucks, I cannot fairly compete, because I can’t invest insane amounts of time into this new vertical gear grind —that Arenanet originally promised they’d never add— so I will always have inferior items from now on”?
I’m speechless about this in my opinion bad game design. But anyway, I stopped playing way back when the whole Ascended nonsense was released and I only just got back cause a friend asked me to help him out. You won’t ever see a dime from me until you restore your promise and actual product features you announced when GW2 came out, the reason why I bought it and invested countless hours in it: No gear progression/grind. I invested a lot of time into the game based on that statement of you about what your product would definitely 100% be like, so how about paying me back for that false statement actually?

The increase over exotics should be 3% to 5%, with 5% being the obvious absolute maximum.
As people stated in the usual youtube videos containing criticism on ascended items, it should of course really be 0% -> it is gear you can grind for if you like that fractal dungeon grind -- leave everyone else alone with that kitten instead of forcing them to do things they don’t want to do and play the way they don’t want to play.

What is the name of the person working at Arenanet who brought up the whole “Ascended Gear” thing?

^ exactly, LordByron. Well and somewhat buffing team mates while causing minor disruption can work somewhat ok. But other than that and healing, no.

That’s why I basically switched to Necromancer, less frustrating to play then pressing 5891282 skills as Ele to a mediocre result, that is only good when I can heal group members with the usual worn out ….30/30 or 20/30 spec (30 forced arcane points everytime ftl – just give the ele faster attunement swapping by default), and as any other class you don’t die super fast to big hits anymore as you do as Ele with its super low HP pool (except if you max toughness.. for super low damage output as a result).

And I don’t see a non-heal “mixed stats” (read: vit/tough/prec/power/crit%) ele going anywhere either, except to be mediocre in every circumstance compared to other classes, especially warriors or guardians, and still die faster.

However, I would play Ele again if there was a weapon switch, even if it is only out of combat. But I still don’t understand why ele is 1) complicated to play AND 2) has lowest hp/armor AND 3) has mediocre damage AND 4) got his mobility nerfed more and more (RTL) so it’s no longer fun to play in WvW either (bad flow). Something seems wrong here, no?

I’m not in a guild.
I checked the karma merchants but they don’t have berserker’s. :/
I thought Anet’s police was that you can obtain your stuff via WvWvW if you want to? Seems not.

I checked the laurel merchant and while he’s got amulets, rings and accessories, he is missing backpieces.

To be specific: I need a berserker’s backpiece.

During one of the Scarlett events, someone got the same exotic twice.
Either he managed to hit that REALLY slim chance, or, more likely, the rng has weak code.

lupercaleb.6041:

this is not a bug
you have to enter the zone within 10 minutes of the invasion’s start, otherwise it will be inactive

08:37

you entered around 37 minutes after the invasion started; 27 minutes too late

I entered it right after the notification message popped up when I was in LA.

This invasion is not active in this overflow. Keep vigilant for Scarlet’s next attack.
This invasion is not active in this overflow. Keep vigilant for Scarlet’s next attack.
This invasion is not active in this overflow. Keep vigilant for Scarlet’s next attack.
This invasion is not active in this overflow. Keep vigilant for Scarlet’s next attack.
This invasion is not active in this overflow. Keep vigilant for Scarlet’s next attack.

oh hey, did I just pay 25s just for porting around to read that message every time?

Oh I see there are more postings like this :-o
And I have to agree with what is said in them about the only viable way was to play the no-dam bunker ele (which now also is pretty immobile thanks to the nerfing, except if you sacrifice and go for Swiftness-Aura build) which I’m tired of.

Ok I think I’m done with Ele class, you managed to nerf it so much that I forgot completely why I’m playing it. It’s now apparently some sort of tedious work with meager rewards to play it, instead of fun.

-bad damage compared to extreme squishiness, all other classes are much better in relative ratio

-you nerfed all mobility, the trait windborne daggers at least promises some but of course the tooltip is “bugged” – in reality you obviously left the tooltip like this on purpose so you can just keep the trait nerfed

-going for toughness is a joke compared to what warriors/guardians can do in comparison

-no great utilities/group buffs either compared to other classes – Pick guardian, it can also deal much more damage at same toughness, or less damage at much better survivability – as basically every other class too (except thief maybe)

-extremly tedious to handle compared to other classes. Have to manually switch weapons all the time or you’re a slowpoke/not useful for group in wvw. Fighting also requires much more effort, cycling through attunements, which other classes can have much simpler with same or better results.

-wanna be funny and spam aoe? Play Engineer, or maybe Necro even.

Yeah, you CAN do anything of the above as Ele.. And everything of it will be disgustingly mediocre and lame.
It was a great class when GW2 came out, now it’s kitten, sorry.

And here is my suggestion:
Restore the Ele’s mobility! That makes it somewhat distinguished and restores flow in playing again.
1) Unnerf RTL
2) Unnerf Windborne Dagger (should work out of combat, as the tooltip not restricts – fire your tooltip writer while you’re on it)
3) Reduce CD on Lightning Flash perhaps. Not required though.

Or the very best thing ever:
123) Add an out-of-combat weapon switch already, as was asked for since release.

Fix the class please, thanks!

Ok I think I’m done with Ele class, you managed to nerf it so much that I forgot completely why I’m playing it. It’s now apparently some sort of tedious work with meager rewards to play it, instead of fun.

-bad damage compared to extreme squishiness, all other classes are much better in relative ratio

-you nerfed all mobility, the trait windborne daggers at least promises some but of course the tooltip is “bugged” – in reality you obviously left the tooltip like this on purpose so you can just keep the trait nerfed

-going for toughness is a joke compared to what warriors/guardians can do in comparison

-no great utilities/group buffs either compared to other classes – Pick guardian, it can also deal much more damage at same toughness, or less damage at much better survivability – as basically every other class too (except thief maybe)

-extremly tedious to handle compared to other classes. Have to manually switch weapons all the time or you’re a slowpoke/not useful for group in wvw. Fighting also requires much more effort, cycling through attunements, which other classes can have much simpler with same or better results.

-wanna be funny and spam aoe? Play Engineer, or maybe Necro even.

Yeah, you CAN do anything of the above as Ele.. And everything of it will be disgustingly mediocre and lame.
It was a great class when GW2 came out, now it’s kitten, sorry.

And here is my suggestion:
Restore the Ele’s mobility! That makes it somewhat distinguished and restores flow in playing again.
1) Unnerf RTL
2) Unnerf Windborne Dagger (should work out of combat, as the tooltip not restricts – fire your tooltip writer while you’re on it)
3) Reduce CD on Lightning Flash perhaps. Not required though.

Or the very best thing ever:
123) Add an out-of-combat weapon switch already, as was asked for since release.

Fix the class please, thanks!

warpout.4761:

Still not working.

STILL not working.
After nerfing RTL from 20 to 40s, how about fixing at least the other bugs so the class is fun and not as meh/lame/wishywashy/pointless as it is atm?
Thanks, get to work.

I just started playing again after 8-9 months or something, was playing my D/D Ele and something was odd, flow was bad, I didn’t really get into it, felt somehow tedious.

Then I realized..
RTL and Updraft were both nerfed to 40s.. LOL

Gg,kittenNet.

Well when I tried it in LA puzzle I couldn’t even see the floor I was standing on.
But yeah, when I use it in the normal parts of the town, I see a 300 range illumination effect.
Odd? I will try again next time I have time to play..

When choosing “Upgrade Component” and then “Armour” it correctly shows runes.
When choosing “Upgrade Component” and then “Weapon” it however does not show any sigils.

I guess it might be one of these bugs/mysteries that persist for months without getting (re)solved.

Well, +toughness has diminishing effects if amassed, and 10% more revive speed isn’t really that powerful I think. Reviving with 20% more HP sounds good, but really I’m not convinced that +toughness on the set needs to be nerfed out of the ordinary for any reason… It’s also a very particular set – usually you don’t want anyone to go in down state in the first place :-p And you could use a set that helps keep them alive instead.
So I think this set needs to be brought up on par.